Reviews: Bailey, Charles W.

Seven Days in May —
Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II

Fletcher
Knebel and Charles W. Bailey’s 1962’s Seven
Days in May is
a best-selling political thriller set in the early 1970s.

The
struggle over Iran brought the Americans and Soviets to the brink of
all-out war. Republican President Edgar Frazier’s decision to
accept a divided Iran was reasonable under the circumstances (it
averted nuclear war) but it was political suicide for him1.

As
his Democratic Party replacement Jordan Lyman discovers, sometimes
success is just the opportunity to fail on a more epic scale.